ShareTweet As you’ve read here several times (It’s Not a Double Dip, It’s a Depression?, 10 Signs We’re Headed for Another Recession – Or That The Last One Never Ended), I truly believe we never left the Great Recession. Sure, in the very broadest technical definition of the word we left The Great Recession because our GDP […]
Economic Uncertainty Leads to Spike in Safe Sales
ShareTweet Without a doubt, the last month has been filled with economic uncertainty. The United States Congress took forever to raise the debt limit, having the new legislature signed into law the very same day the country was due to hit the debt limit. Last week stocks plunged, regained ground, plunged, and came back again. […]
Why Isn’t David Walker a Mainstream “Hero” Like Al Gore?
ShareTweet Back in 2006, An Inconvenient Truth was released, and everyone went nuts over it. “Going green” became the cause of the week, and the documentary’s “star,” Al Gore, stopped being former Vice President Al Gore, and became mainstream hero Al Gore. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, the documentary won an Academy Award, and […]
It’s Not a Double Dip, It’s a Depression?
ShareTweet It’s no secret the economy stinks. That’s not the question. The real question now is: how bad will it get? As I said in my post, “10 Signs We’re Headed for Another Recession – Or That the Last One Never Ended,” there is a laundry list of things wrong with the economy – housing […]
10 Signs We’re Headed for Another Recession – Or That the Last One Never Ended
ShareTweet It’s no secret the economy is not doing well. Unemployment is still close to 10%. Under employment – the figure I think gives a better representation of how bad the labor market is – stands at 18.3%, meaning nearly one in five Americans either doesn’t have a job, or is working a part-time job […]